Does this shock footage show moment 32 cows are annihilated by ALIENS?

Missouri farmer Jared Blackwelder and his wife, Misty, were devastated to discover 32 of their dairy cows had been obliterated after a terrifying storm on April 29.

They believe their farm in Missouri, US, had been hit by a devastating lightning strike that wiped out the entire herd.

The cows that perished were all certified organic, costing around $2,500 (£1,925) each.

"It's not like they are pets. But the ones I'm milking, I've raised every one of them," Blackwelder told local reporters at the time.

But since the bizarre mass killing, many conspiracy theorists have questioned the real reason for the cow deaths.

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YouTube user and so-called truth-seeker SecureTeam 10 speculated that the bizarre nature of the death suggests there could be an other worldly explanation.

“It would seem that we have a new trend that’s really only been happening over the past couple of years where we’re seeing mass animal die offs all at one time, all of it being blamed on lightning strikes,” the YouTube vlogger says.

“We didn’t hear about this stuff back in the day and in all of these cases, none of these farmers actually saw the lightning strike."

He explained that cattle mutilations are well known in the UFO community, suggesting aliens could be behind the unexplained slaughter.

“Can all of this really be blamed on magical single lightning strikes that would occur without even a storm being present?” he asked.

“I’m wondering if there’s a cover up here?”

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More than 129,000 people had watched the clip in less than 24 hours on YouTube.

Viewers were equally as sceptical about the reason for the mass cow killing.

“I’ve been raised on and near farms for over 50 years and I never heard of this until the last year or so. One or two killed during a big storm, I've seen twice. That's it,” one viewer said.

Another commented: “The bodies don't even look mildly scorched. And off the top of my head, after such a strike, would there be water on the ground unless it rained afterward? This is more than a lightening strike.”